Everton drew 1-1 for the third successive home match as John Carew came off the bench to equalise for Aston Villa at Goodison Park.
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov had opened the scoring for the hosts in first-half stoppage time, but Carew - who replaced Emile Heskey at the break - made it 1-1 within two minutes of the restart.
Both teams finished the match with 10 men after Bilyaletdinov and then Carlos Cuellar were given their marching orders late on by referee Lee Probert.
David Moyes will have been relieved for his players to have put a run of three successive defeats behind them, but again the Toffees were held at home following the 1-1 draws with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Stoke City.
Everton and Villa had matched each other all the way until the final weeks of last season in the race for fifth place in the table ...